http://quoth.nexusvector.net/tag/individual Quoth en-us Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:26:31 -0700 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:26:31 -0700 http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/2889 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:26:31 -0700 horrors individual optimistic positive sad world So we're lookin' out on the world and what do we see
Another screen full of horror, another atrocity,
What can I do as simple man who wants to make a difference,
Wants to do what he can, not just talk about it.
Stone drops in a pond, stirs the sediment, sends ripples, to the edge of the world.



- Howard Jones
Song: Another Chance

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1859 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:46:33 -0800 individual majority It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
- G. H. Hardy

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/1113 Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:19:19 -0800 individual self style tests The test of a true individuality of style is that we should feel it to be inevitable.
- John Middleton Murry - British writer (1889-1957)

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/770 Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:33:05 -0800 freedom individual This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: The freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: Any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
- John Steinbeck

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/760 Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:20:23 -0800 big individual little I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.
- William James

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/542 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/543 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/544 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
- Alfred A. Montapert

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/549 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the vision to perceive a system which governs many peoples' lives, a system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that the system really is there, and that it ought to be exited from.
- Douglas Hofstadter
Book: “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, pg 37

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/550 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/551 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

]]> http://quoth.nexusvector.net/quote/553 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0700 individual You're only so sure you're right because they're so sure you're wrong.
Book: “Xenocide” by Orson Scott Card

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